A few days ago, the automotive industry paid attention to the news, which based its statistics on automobile recalls issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation between January and March 2023.
Statistics show that from January to March 2023, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued a total of 32 vehicle recall announcements, involving 17 automobile brands, with a cumulative recall of more than 650,000 vehicles, but the number of recalls showed a decreasing trend year-on-year.
Specifically, BMW became the quarterly "recall king", from January to March, BMW carried out a total of 3 recalls, a total of 266,400 vehicles, involving models including domestic 325Li, domestic i3, imported i4, domestic 5 series and other models, the reason for the recall is that the dashboard may be black.
It was followed by the domestically produced Beiqi Shenbao D50, with a recall of more than 100,000 units; The number of recalls from Suzuki and German Porsche among Japanese cars is also more than 50,000 units. Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Toyota, Jeep, Lincoln and other models ranked fifth to tenth.
Overall, imported cars in the first quarter of this year are still half of the number of recalls, of which German and European and Japanese recalls are more, in contrast, few car companies in the self-owned brand camp are recalled, and only two are on the list.
Previously, Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the Passenger Association, said that the number of recalls implemented in the first quarter of this year fell by 41% compared with the number of the same period last year, and the overall return to relative stability.
Among them, there are more recalls from foreign-funded enterprises, more problems of voluntary recalls have been reduced, there are not many recalls of new energy vehicles, and there are no new trend events in the recalls of traditional vehicles.